Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Leaders in biomedical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "are calling for a radical new approach to post-graduate training in the life sciences to address significant challenges, including an avalanche of new discoveries in the last decade and the need to transcend traditional departmental boundaries to understand biological processes at multiple levels." In a Leading Edge commentary published in the August 19, 2011 edition of Cell, the authors "present a new model for biomedical education that would break down current silos of particular disciplines, such as biochemistry, cell biology and physiology, and instead teach students to work across those disciplines to study organisms at all levels, from molecules and cells to an entire organism."
http://tinyurl.com/3plnuk3http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articles/pii/S0092867411008804

An op-ed column in Tuesday's NY Times from Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Jeffrey B. Liebman began, "Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation's long-term debt problem without reducing the growth rate of federal health care spending. The only question is whether the cuts will be smart ones." According to the two former White House advisers, "Smart cuts eliminate spending on medical tests, treatments and procedures that don't work -- or that cost significantly more than other treatments while delivering no better health outcomes. And they can be made without shortchanging patients. There are plenty of examples..." They use the rest of their column discussing such examples. http://tinyurl.com/3uepbc4

The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday released recommendations or best practices for scientists conducting mixed methods health research. Mixed methods research combines the strengths of quantitative research and qualitative research. The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) identified the need for this guidance and commissioned the report.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Dykes Library now subscribes to two new resources in the form of McGraw-Hill E-books made possible through an Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity (OCED), Center of Excellence grant. The McGraw-Hill Exam Review Guides offer peer-to-peer medical review guides to help you earn top marks on USMLE, clerkships, and specialty board exams. Additionally, the McGraw-Hill Medical Handbooks contain essential references connecting you to the latest advances in clinical and therapeutic medicine. Both of these resources can be accessed on or off campus. While off campus, these tools can be accessed remotely by logging in with your Novell or GroupWise ID and password when prompted.